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§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 10:23:00 am PST #1277 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There are a bunch of places to gank the info.

AFAIK, our angle would be a) it's ours b) we can vote and rank and stuff c) we'll have the coolest searching options ever.

Mootest of the moot, since no volunteers have stepped forward with offers to code it. Or the quiz, either.


msbelle - Nov 08, 2002 10:28:09 am PST #1278 of 10000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I am a gatherer, not a coder.

also? insent again.


§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 12:05:28 pm PST #1279 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

C'mon! All the cool kids are coding.

I just realized, above and beyond guides or quizzes, we have a feature need that's reasonably compartmentalized. Quote editing.

For this I'd love coding and design volunteers.


Betsy HP - Nov 08, 2002 12:12:22 pm PST #1280 of 10000
If I only had a brain...

The second paragraph of this t pre changes font for no apparent reason.

Betsy Hanes Perry "Literary Buffistas: Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" Nov 8, 2002 1:50:27 pm EST


§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 12:18:21 pm PST #1281 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hmm. Jon? John?
<p>
<pre>'They'll turn me in thy arms, lady,
An adder and a snake;
But hold me fast, let me na gae,
To be your warldly mate.
</p>
<p>
'They'll turn me in your arms, lady,
A grey greyhound to girn;
But hald me fast, let me na gae,
The father o your bairn.
</p>
<p>
They'll turn me in your arms, lady,
A red het gad o iron;
Then hand me fast, and be na feard,
I'll do to you nae harm.
</p>
<p>
'They 'll turn me in your arms, lady,
A mother-naked man;
Cast your green kirtle owr me,
To keep me frae the rain.
</p>
<p>
'First dip me in a stand o milk,
And then a stand o water;
Haud me fast, let me na gae,
I'll be your bairnie's father.'
</pre>
</p>

I don't have the code to hand, but we have overlapping tags, but even that doesn't explain to me what formatting is active in the subsequent verses.


Betsy HP - Nov 08, 2002 12:22:22 pm PST #1282 of 10000
If I only had a brain...

Note that I didn't put in the t p tags; all I did was put in the t pre and place blank lines between stanzas.

Like this

and this

and this


§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 12:26:17 pm PST #1283 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The t p tags are automatically put in around every block of text delimited by two hard returns. However, this should *not* happen inside a t pre block, since it just confuses.


Jon B. - Nov 08, 2002 12:39:38 pm PST #1284 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I copied betsy's quote into the test environment (clicking on "edit" for her post and copying what was in the text box) and got some VERY weird results - it looks like the post is getting truncated to 255 characters(!). I'm assuming that this is something that's only in test right now?


§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 12:41:07 pm PST #1285 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You're right, that was weird. I have no idea how the column type got set to tinytext. It's text now.


Jon B. - Nov 08, 2002 1:20:49 pm PST #1286 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Thanks, ita. Now, I'm getting the same result as Betsy, and I have no bloody idea why it's happening. But 2 hard returns are definitely adding the t p markers.

Didn't this used to work correctly?